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SPIRiEA Reevesiana. 

 Mr. Reeves^s Spircea. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea. 

 SPIRMA. L. 



S. Reevesiana ; foliis lanceolatis serratis trilobis pinnatifidisve utrinque glabris 

 subtus glaucescentibus, racemis capitatis termmalibus pedunculatis, 

 sepalis intus villosis. 



S. Reevesiana, Hort. 



S. corymbosa, Tloxh.fi. hid. 2. 512. 



Frutex fiere sempervirens, nitidiis, S. chamsedrifoliae aspectu, foliis in 

 ramis vegetiorihus fere pinnatifidis in planta juniore scepe trilobis, senectiite 

 indivisis serratis. 



This plant, which was introduced from China by Mr. 

 Reeves, whose name it bears, is generally supposed to be the 

 8. lanceolata of Poiret : but that species is described with 

 axillary sessile umbels, and must therefore be different. It is 

 certainly Roxburgh's S. corymbosa, a name however which, 

 being pre-occupied by Rafinesque, cannot well be retained. 

 Probably, it is also the no. 701 of Dr. Wallich's Indian Her- 

 barium, and if so, may be a native of the mountains of India, 

 as Dr. Roxburgh states. 



The leaves on its strong young shoots are so deeply lobed 

 as to be almost pinnatifid. On the branches, when the plant 

 is young, they are frequently 3-lobed ; but as it becomes old 

 they lose their lobed character altogether. 



It is a handsome hardy sub-evergreen shrub, growing in 

 any good garden soil, from three to four feet high. It is 

 easily increased from cuttings of the small half-ripened twigs 

 any time during the summer or autumn. The cuttings should 



